List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Introduction
1. Toward an American Aesthetics
Walter B. Gulick
Part II: Philosophical Contributions to American Aesthetics from the Past
2. The Primacy of Aesthetic Judgments: Emerson's Deontological-Transcendentalist Account of Tragedy
Jacob L. Goodson
3. Peirce and Edwards on the Argument from Beauty
Michael L. Raposa
4. A Semeiotic Account of Paintings as Pure Icons that Communicate Beautiful Feelings
David Rohr
5. The Pragmatist Aesthetics of William James
Richard Shusterman
6. Between Nature and Art: Some Analytical Exemplifications of Dewey's Aesthetics
Robert E. Innis
Part III: American Aesthetics: Contemporary Theoretical Contributions
7. Axiological Landscape Theory: Uniting Aesthetics, Ethics, and Inquiry
Wesley J. Wildman
8. Experience and Signs: Toward a Pragmatist Literary Criticism
Nicholas Gaskill
9. Music, Time, and the Egress of Possibility
Randall E. Auxier
10. Harmony, Existence, and the Aesthetic
Robert Cummings Neville
11. Historical-Aesthetic Complementarity: An American Philosophical Contribution to the Study of Religion
Gary Slater
Part IV: Applying American Aesthetic Theory to Practice
12. An Exemplary Critic in the Tradition of American Aesthetics: Harold Rosenberg
Leanne Gilbertson and Walter B. Gulick
13. Experiential Immersions in Beauty: A Confluence of James Turrell's Light Spaces and Whitehead's Aesthetics
Vaughan Durkee McTernan
14. Dialogue: From Rich Experience to Minimalist Expression
Corey Drieth and Walter B. Gulick
15. The Fabric of Thirdness: A Concert Pianist's Peircean Interpretation of Performance
Arthur Stewart
16. Inspiring Singers toward Emotional Communication through Aesthetic Discovery
Steven Hart
17. Budd Boetticher's Transcendental Westerns, or, Schrader, Bazin, Sartre, and Neville Walk into a Saloon
James McLachlan
Part V: Aesthetic Aspects of a Flourishing Life
18. Resolving the Tension of Everyday Aesthetics in a Deweyan Way
Thomas Leddy
19. The Struggle for Centering Things in an Age of Consumerism
David Strong
20. The Dynamics of Selving and the Aesthetics of Ecstatic Naturalism
Robert S. Corrington
List of Contributors
Index

Walter B. Gulick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Humanities, and Religious Studies at Montana State University Billings. Gary Slater is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious and Theological Studies at St. Edward's University and the author of C.S. Peirce and the Nested Continua Model of Religious Interpretation.